2007-02-21 02:29:03 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
There is a double standard, well connected or wealthy elite can break the laws and never face prosecution! The poor & defenseless get caught their at the mercy of what ever judge they face! USA has more prisoners than any other country over half cause of the illegal drug trade or desperate souls trying to carve out a living in this Fascist Capitalistic majorly flawed structure! The illegals when finishing their terms be escorted back to country of origin! The smart way to deal with drugs in my opinion is to offer unlimited access to anything anybody wants & say knock yourself out/have at it! Instantly takes the crime element out of it! But the court system would want that being such a HUGE portion of their business!
2007-02-21 02:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by bulabate 6 · 2⤊ 6⤋
There are some people in prison that truly deserve to be there. These people are killers, rapists, thieves, etc... If you do something that victimizes someone else, you should be in prison.
There are some people in prison that are there for "crimes" that have no victim. These people hurt no one. Simple possession or trafficking of drugs for example. Using drugs hurts nothing but your own health. These people should not be in prison.
Meanwhile, while the idiots are overcrowding our prison system with people that have not hurt anyone, the real criminals are getting out of prison without serving even half of their sentence.
Oh yea, that's a great idea, let's put a child molester back on the street so we can make room to imprison someone for smoking a joint or snorting a line of coke.
For those condescending idiots who say that drug dealers kill people for money to buy drugs, get bent.
If drugs were not illegal they would not be ridiculously expensive and the end user wouldn't have to steal to buy drugs.
If drugs were not illegal the drug dealers wouldn't be able to afford the fully automatic weapons that they use to defend their sales territories.
It is the anti-drug people that are responsible for violent drug crime for driving up the prices and thus providing a means for black market profit to enable the purchase of weapons that kill bystanders as often as business rivals.
2007-02-21 11:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have heard idiots all my life cry "It's a free country", thinking they can do whatever they want without any repercussion. Those people are the product of those who think the rules don't apply to them. For example, a 10 year old boy throws a rock at my window. I step outside and tell him to get out of my yard and never come back. His reply as he was leaving was, "It's a free country". For some reason he thinks because his ancestors were slaves, but now his people are free from slavery, that he can go around terrorizing others because it's a free country. How cruel it is keep a people that ignorant. This young boy, if he lives to grow up into adulthood, will be in the prison system just like his father.
America is great, but for how long who knows?
2007-02-21 10:50:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I'm not in prison. Everyone I know is not in prison. And a majority of citizens in this country are not in prison. There are a lot of people in prison all over the world, what's your point?
2007-02-21 11:08:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe if we legalized drugs? Over 50% of the people in prison are there on drug related charges. This country could save over $100 BILLION a year on a failing war on drugs, put drug cartels and organized crime completely out of business overnight, and free up our prisons for REAL criminals (murderers, rapists, child abusers, and thieves). Another way to look at it is like this:
Americans spend BILLIONS on beer, wine, hard alcohol, and tobacco. All 100% legal. Yet the government spends BILLIONS of our tax dollars trying to keep people from smoking pot? Doing coke? Dropping ecstasy? What's the difference between getting drunk in the privacy of your own home, and getting high?
2007-02-21 11:06:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our judicial system needs to get a lot tougher with regards to punishment asap as opposed to allowing hardened criminals to lounge around in prison for years. what kind of deterrent is this?
2007-02-21 14:45:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first, you have to consider that compared to canada and europe US crime stats are higher, however they have been dropping a lot over the past decade while canada and europe's crime has been skyrocketing, especially in the UK and France. People badmouth NYC all the time in the US, but stats show that it is far safer than almost any major European city. Also, you have to look at the offenses. In the US the vast majority of people in prison are for drug-related offenses, but drug laws and canada and europe are very lax, as are their laws in regards to prostitution and sex with minors.
2007-02-21 10:39:36 · answer #7 · answered by Matt 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Two ways to answer this one...
1) So many people in prison WHERE?
2) Because there're so many of us to love!
Seriously - what's one thing have to do with the other, in your question? Lay out your premise.
2007-02-21 10:32:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because so many people are in prison.
2007-02-21 10:32:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because there are so many people here, and not everyone is a good person.
2007-02-21 11:21:09 · answer #10 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋